Kansky teenagers in SIZO-5 stopped transmitting letters
19 April 2021
The 15-year-old accused on terrorist articles Nikita Uvarov and Denis Mikhailenko, who are in the pre-trial detention center of Kansk, do not transmit letters for the second month. At first, the ban concerned only letters with mentioning political events, now adolescents do not even receive the most neutral messages. The addressees told The Insider that in response through the Service of the FSIN, there are notifications that "the letter did not go to censorship."
“A friend of a girlfriend, without any texts uncomfortable for pre-trial detention centers, purely“ I am Sveta, deal with photography, look how beautiful it is, ”did not have a censorship,” said one of The Insider interlocutors. According to her, no one sent a week ago, no one looked. According to the law for censorship, three days are allocated.
Another interlocutor The Insider showed the letter of the letter to Denis Mikhailenko, who also did not pass censorship. In a prohibited letter, she says that “she loves hedgehogs and buckwheat tea,” and in the campaign she saw a “sweet fox”.
One of the addressees, Julia Lorenz, received an answer from Denis Mikhailenko with a request not to write to him anymore: “I am pleased that you wrote to me, but you are a little mistaken. Next, the phrase, crossed out, but so that you can read: in the context of your letter, I realized that you support (inaudible) actions, but we had no intentions about the revolution. Next is not crossed out: I ask me not to write anymore !!! Sincerely, Denis! ”
“I immediately realized that he was forced to write it. For some time I taught Russian and literature and I know how adolescents of his age express their thoughts, ”said Lorenz.
Former political prisoner Ivan Astashin told The Insider that Denis Mikhailenko did not hand over his letter in mid -March, in which he talked about the latest political events. “After all, in the Kansky pre -trial detention center from the sources of information there are only two channels on the TV, and Denis, for example, asked if it was true that they put Navalny. In a letter to Denis, I quoted the media and gave dry facts: how many people came out on January 23 and 31, how much was detained. No assessments, no judgments. But, apparently, according to the censors of the Kansky pre -trial detention center, information about mass protests is a danger in places of imprisonment. Maybe this will provoke prisoners to the rebellion? ”He wrote in his Telegram channel.
Astashin noted that "no laws and rules are provided for such censorship." “The ban on“ political news ”is the arbitrariness of the administration of the pre -trial detention center, which is acting in one way or by its own initiative, or with the presentation of“ free ”security forces,” he emphasized.
Astashin told The Insider that, according to his information, Denis was banned from corresponding with him and was strongly recommended to stop correspondence with Julia Lorenz.
Also, the participants of the project “Tales for Political Persons” for a long time had not received answers for a long time.
The participant of the Prisoners 212 project Alexei Minyailo said that Nikita Uvarov also did not hand over his letter. “It seems that censorship in the Kansk pre-trial detention center does not miss anything, where the January mass protests are somehow mentioned. Although the law is not prohibited in any way, ”the Telegram channel“ The Case of Kansky Teenagers ” notes .
Recall that schoolchildren from the city of Kansk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory Nikita Uvarov, Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreev were detained by the FSB officers in the summer of 2020 after they glued stickers with criticism of the state and in support of political prisoners. During the interrogations, the investigators and investigators found a correspondence in their phones, in which they discussed the opportunity to blow up a building built in the Minecraft, similar to the FSB building. This is a discussion of the methods of manufacturing home -made firecrackers was the starting point for the prosecution under an article on terrorism.
Schoolchildren were charged under Art. 205.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Passage of training in order to carry out terrorist activities." Later, the 4th part of the 205th article “Organization of the terrorist community and participation in it” was added to the accusations, but this charge was removed. If adolescents were adults, they would face a punishment from 15 years to life imprisonment of these accusations. Since the accused is not 18 years old, they can be given from 7.5 to 10 years in prison.
At the end of March, the Memorial human rights center included adolescents in the list of likely victims of political repression.
